This study was conducted in 1979 at the Social Science
Research Institute, University of Southern California, and explores
the relationship between neighborhood change and crime rates between
the years 1950 and 1976. The data were aggregated by unique and
consistently-defined spatial areas, referred to as dummy tracts or
neighborhoods, within Los Angeles County. By combining United States
Census data and administrative data from several state, county, and
local agencies, the researchers were able to develop measures that
tapped the changing str... (more info)

This study was conducted in 1979 at the Social Science
Research Institute, University of Southern California, and explores
the relationship between neighborhood change and crime rates between
the years 1950 and 1976. The data were aggregated by unique and
consistently-defined spatial areas, referred to as dummy tracts or
neighborhoods, within Los Angeles County. By combining United States
Census data and administrative data from several state, county, and
local agencies, the researchers were able to develop measures that
tapped the changing structural and compositional aspects of each
neighborhood and their interaction with the patterns of juvenile
delinquency. Some of the variables included are annual income, home
environment, number of crimes against persons, and number of property
crimes.

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Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.

Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of
disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major
statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to
these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

Version(s)

Original ICPSR Release:1984-03-18

Version History:

1998-05-27 The logical record length data have been
reformatted, excess decimal zeroes were deleted, and the corresponding
SPSS data definition statements revised. Also, SAS data definition
statements have been prepared, and a machine-readable codebook is now
available as a Portable Document Format file.

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